McArthur Peak

McArthur Peak rises in Yukon’s Saint Elias Mountains and ranks as Canada’s thirteenth highest peak, about eleven kilometers northeast of Mount Logan. A secondary summit roughly two kilometers east is called McArthur East. The mountain was named for James Joseph McArthur, a Dominion Land Surveyor noted for making the first ascent of a Canadian peak over ten thousand feet when he climbed Mount Stephen in 1887. McArthur Peak’s first recorded ascent took place on August 4, 1961, when Barbara Lilley, Alexander McDermott, Donald Monk, Seymour Ossofsky, and George Wallerstein reached the summit from the Hubbard Glacier by way of the north ridge.

Yukon · Canada